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Imagine having $700 million, having almost no responsibility, and still being that much of a putz.

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F-that! Take pride… Mint is ridiculously good. Well managed, stable, “just works” and yet has all the capabilities you want, including auto-running near the edge for current kernels (backed down to stable) without doing jack. You can run at the bleeding edge if you want to manage it yourself.

And for any haters - here’s my take: I’ve been working with Unix for 30+ years, I installed Slackware off of floppies when 16MB of RAM was god-like. I have built, compiled and managed nearly every distro at some point certainly the upstream giants. I’ve been there for the birth of all of them. I’ve also professionally worked on AIX, SunOS/Solaris, HPUX. Yes there’s a lot of fun in maintaining and running things to your satisfaction, but when you hit a certain inflection point of balancing your real life and maintaining distros across multiple machines and decide “This is the way” - Mint just fits the bill on so many levels.

Mint is the bomb and I’m done pretending. Fight me (not you, OP, you’re cool)

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100%.

Trump Targets J.B. Pritzker: ‘Presided Over The Destruction And Disintegration Of Illinois’ (www.offthepress.com)

On Sunday, former President Trump targeted Illinois Democratic governor J.B. Pritzker, who has been considered a rising star in the Democratic Party but who has presided over the state while natives flee. Pritzker was inaugurated as governor of the state in January 2019; between July 2021 and July 2022, over 142,000 people left...

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Am in Illinois today. Can confirm, nothing destroyed and certainly not disintegrated.

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We need someone to ask him how he’d like to die like that boat electricution vs. shark question: “How would you rather die? Drink bleach or inject it?”

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then shalt thou count to three…

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The rare Office Space paraphrase joke. I can only assume the downvotes haven’t got a clue. NICE.

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I remember how frequent “legislating from the bench” came up on the news - Is the GOP up in arms about this one?

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In all seriousness - can we crowd fund this purchase and make it immediately public?

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The salt-water of life!

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Even among my red-state god-fearing right-wing family members, I have never heard a single man say anything approaching this. They all know exactly what he is and don’t care. He has a very public and lengthy history of the opposite, and the NYT knows it.

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Sorry to say, but this one goes well beyond the current fuckery of the existing Stock Market.

This is the biggest money laundering scheme ever run in public view. The only thing propping up any price for Truth SOcial are those with a vested interest in paying off The Donald and putting the GOP in power; Saudia Arabia and Russia - with just a splash of China. Follow the money.

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Huge swaths of companies have ditched VMWare entirely due to their enshitification. Anyone still licesning already has a plan to transion away. I’ve only heard of extreme corner cases staying because whatever it was supporting was end of life anyway. Fuck em.

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You would be wrong. Compounding is an absolute beast. It’s nearly a Million. Let’s say you are 25 and just starting out. You manage to put in $1000 a year and get the $1000 credit. Let’s say you do this exact same thing until you are 65. You invest it in the S&P500 Index which historically returns ~10% annually…

Balance at 65: $929,444

Total contributions: $80,000

Employee contributions: $80,000

Employer match: $0

Investment returns: $849,444

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How much? Asking for a friend.

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Imagine in the world where we do stock trades that are measured in the milliseconds and it takes 2-3 weeks to process a check. This involves 3 things: establish communication with the bank, verify the account, verify the funds are available. If yes = transfer. Unreal that we enable these scammers still.

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Avian Flu, Pandemic Boogaloo

19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles (signpost.news)

The crying "History" button at the top right sends its regards. Yes, the World Jewish Congress has published a report that demands Wikipedia add a feature to view the history of articles, see what actions were performed by whom, and "host forums and discussions within the Wikipedia community to address concerns about neutrality...

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It also wants to force all editors to reveal their real names.

Not even veiling the threat…

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All of them - ocean temp, ocean salinity, ocean’s ability to absorb CO2, air temp… and # of species disappearing, especially insect.

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Months?

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Was just about to say - you can probably find some literature on most of those that COULD sway someone who doesn’t understand statitics or peer reviewed scientific papers, but fuck me… Chlorine Dioxide? It’s fucking Bleach!

This is on the level of Trump’s “inject some bleach in me to kill all the bugs” (paraphrasing) I suppose technically that would kill the pathogens, but most of them would outlive the host it killed first.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost

a sunk cost is a sum paid in the past that is no longer relevant to decisions about the future.

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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/48ddf6dc-df59-4273-97e2-bad17ebeb93e.png

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Isn’t that partial autonomy the ONE thing that allows China to have trading status around the world? I suspect that their cheap export power turns many a blind eye, but I’m pretty sure I remember reading that their entry into the world stage for trading partnerships was predicated on Hong Kong NOT becoming China when the UK pulled out.

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That book? It’s an advertisement…

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“We have them with us all the time

“We have lost most of them to time, disrepair and corruption”

constantly in a state of combat readiness

“A few might still work, we’re really not sure”

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What do you think Top Gun is?

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If this was photoshopped with him in a jean jacket it would be… chef’s kiss.

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They are legal. This is/was Walmart’s M.O. for anticompetitive behavior when one of their stores closed. Any competitors couldn’t lease, other businesses failed when they moved and didn’t have the traffic, and so you are left with both an unoccupied eye sore as well as a food / product desert…

Good idea on the vacancy and potentially changing the law to prevent anti-competitive stipulations like that.

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Yep! This reminds me of the infographic where almost every major food brand in the world is covered by 10 parent brands. www.good.is/Business/food-brands-owners-rp

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let’s not kink shame…

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If it’s under warranty, they almost certainly cannot deny the claim for this or really many bullshit reasons manufacturers say like removing a “warranty void” sticker - which is still covered. You can sue in small claims. Check out the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act should you need to prove your point.

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While I agree with the sentiment, NATO Europe is increasing in strength. Would it be losing a huge backing with US? Yes, the countries would for sure need to invest more heavily in their militaries, but to say it will be lost is just not correct. The European NATO countries are talking openly about the risks with Russia’s aggression and have already started increasing budgets modestly and many are calling for further investment.

Not to mention the fact that if Russia goes all-in on say attacking Finland for example, and the US has somehow backed away from 100 years of historical mutual support in the European theater, many in US population will call for US involvement. Loudly. In fact it’s the one time I can see the benefit of a Military Industrial Complex here pushing to join such a war… to sell more weapons

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DISSAPPOINTED!!

Whats the best way to remove mold stains from clothes?

Two days ago I saw that one of my favourite shirts has mold stains. So far I’ve soaked it in 1:1 water and vinegar, dilute colorsafe bleach, and detergent separately for a few hours each. That might’ve killed the mold but the stains aren’t coming off. I rubbed powdered detergent on the shirt and left it in the sun for a...

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To be fair, it will also get stains out of clothes.

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“Lunch Debt” … jesus christ

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Every day we are drifting further and further from supply side Jesus

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I think I watched this episode of Handmaid’s Tale

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So we’ve progressed from Cancel Culture to Cancel Terrorism? Threats to judges, prosecutors, politicians and now hotels. Cowards

Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for “enriching conversations” (www.theverge.com)

Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for “enriching conversations”::Volkswagen is putting ChatGPT into its cars starting in the second quarter of 2024. The feature is being considered for the US, but plans have yet to be finalized.

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I’ve got.some bad news for you…

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2 Billy? Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those up!

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Our econnomy is heavily tied to the Internet at this point. Billions in commerce are conducted directly and many billions more in enabled (“what’s the closest pizza place?”). Not to mention stock trading, banking, government services, healthcare, etc. You’re very much on track here and I don’t think it’s hyperbole.

While it could technically happen that our government could legally shut down the internet, it wouldn’t last long or it means we are under attack (perhaps internally) and need to control damage/messaging.

'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs (www.pcgamer.com)

I assume that somebody, somewhere, has done the detached corporate penny-pinching to make this all make sense on paper. But this is a disastrous move from a consumer goodwill standpoint. If you have the CEO of a studio which handed you a major commercial success publicly mourning the depth and scope of your layoffs, something's...

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They look poised to destroy Magic: The Gathering as well… as an investor, I’m PISSED - all about short term gains for shit C-class execs.

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Thanks for posting - I didn’t know this existed.

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We are getting very close to approval of Melanoma vaccines. www.cnn.com/2023/12/14/health/…/index.html

For those not aware, Melanomas are not only one of the deadliest and most common cancers, it isn’t really very treatable with chemotherapies or radiation. And yes, Fuck cancer - we’re coming for you, bitch!

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You’ve really hit the most salient point here. The payouts and making cops financially liable is all good discourse, but they really buried the lede. If Chicago has payed out almost 3/4 of a Billion in 23 years to people cops have framed, think of just how systemic this corruption is. I mean, I imagine some payouts might be pretty big, but you’re talking hundreds, probably thousands of incidents! That makes it pretty much part of the job if it’s happening that frequently.

The Crippling Economic Costs of Green Energy Subsidies (www.realclearenergy.org)

Although wind and solar proponents still claim costs are falling, the reality is the opposite. Offshore wind developers, especially, are clamoring to renegotiate contracts they signed previously, including guaranteed price adjustments for increasing costs, and relaxing the domestic content requirement so they can claim the...

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Ah yes… more of the “both side of the argument”. Let’s pick this apart and there’s absolutely nothing “lib” about my claims that this is a bullshit “article”. Let me bullet point this:

  • The title is misleading and hyperbolic. There is absolutely nothing “crippling” about the economic costs of subsidizing green energy. In fact we subsidize Fossil Fuels to the tune of 3/4 of a TRILLION dollars PER YEAR. The article lays out that we will be on the hook for between $500B and $1T by 2046… If my math is right, that’s 23 years out. At the lower end, that’s just over $21 BILLION PER YEAR for Green energy. It’s a pittance comparatively. We are talking orders of magnitude more “crippling economic costs” of subsidizing by Fossil Fuels vs. this one target for cost overruns. This alone means the article is FUD. But it goes further in basically singling this one piece of the green energy pie out and then editorializing how this impacts the US… I won’t even go into how much of the money is spent on those very green jobs that the article purports as a "jobs killer"
  • By the way, that differencial in costs to subsidize make this gem from the “article” posted kind of hilarious:

Despite spiraling deficits – almost $2 trillion in the fiscal year that ended this past October – green energy subsidies will be financed with still more government debt.

  • The “realcleanenergy” org is 100% fossil fuel backed. There’s no neutrality, there’s no big picture of energy independence, or even a whiff of something like Global Warming, and zero comparison of the Trillions we pump into “drill drill drill” that always ignore the military costs to secure those resources and the carbon footprint that results
  • I’m not calling the article “conservative bullshit” - it absolutely makes itself clear on this point just by looking at the rest of the articles posted by this entity. It’s 100% biased. BTW, Reuters very regularly centers out in terms of left/right leaning: www.allsides.com/news-source/reuters So I’ll put my articles against this any time.

I actually think the article is FUD, but the examples they use are based.

If you think the article is FUD yourself, and this example is “based”, I implore you to look at who’s saying it and why. Fossil Fuels want to live and linger as long as they can because it makes a handful of people very wealthy at the expense of our environment. I’m not dismissing the article. I’m saying I can pick it apart with facts and I’m saying look at the comparables for how much we spend to keep Fossil Fuels alive. If we didn’t spend 7.5 Trillion in a decade on fossil fuels and instead put that into green energy or just let those die out, we wouldn’t need to subsidize Green Energy… it would win as the lower cost alternative. Renewables are winning today despite the money being thrown into oil and coal and NG!

Now, I invite you to explain exactly where my line of discussion is flawed. I have ample articles, many by our own military, GAO, and can even find begrudgingly admitted articles in right-leaning news to back it up. I’m not trying to slam you personally - in fact I hope to share just how influential stuff like this is because it’s looked at uncritically or one piece of the article resonates for a person and they take the rest as gospel.

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OK, I’ll bite one more time:

i posted it is because it’s not a common position, but one that appears to correspond with legislation. For example, California just passed a measure to reduce subsidies for rooftop solar.

Well, we’re switching venues to Solar, but for this specific comparison, the legislation for “Net Metering 3.0” was driven by PGE and Utilities because they don’t want to compete. And saying “corresponding to legislation has it backward” - legislation should lead to outcomes that people want. This was an incredibly unpopular decision in California, especially home owners with rooftop solar. In this case, a huge marketing FUD campaign to curtail rooftop solar is the cause, so it’s a bit like saying “if enough fossil fuel folks throw money at killing offshore wind and legislation follows, then clearly the legislation was right”

the first one is whataboutism

Come on… really? I’m literally pointing out that this article headline is screaming that $20B/Year subsidy for offshore wind will crush our economy and add to our debt and that by that VERY SAME MEASURE, the subsidies for Fossil Fuels are an order of magnitude larger, but you’ve seen no outcry from the article saying those subsides impact our deficit almost 40x as much. I’m making a 1:1 comparison using the article’s own criteria. That’s not whataboutism. I didn’t go “solar and wind good, oil bad” to make my argument. I’m saying it takes a dishonest tone to imply this $20bn subsidy is a jobs killer or deficit crusher when your own backers get far far more of those same subsidy dollars!

couple things for the second: 1 - yeah, probably a fossil fuel funded source

OK, I guess we agree on something.

2 - does that mean they’re wrong? American Oil predicted climate change in the 30s. They weren’t wrong then. Who gets to choose when they’re right and when they’re wrong?

Wrong about what? If I’m sticking to the article and not going off on this other tangent, then the article is saying that offshore wind is going to soak up more subsidy dollars to get off the ground? I’ll 100% take that on good faith that they aren’t misreporting and that it will indeed cost more for these projects than originally anticipated.

American Oil predicted climate change in the 30s. They weren’t wrong then. Who gets to choose when they’re right and when they’re wrong?

Is this an argument? I never once claimed that the article was wrong about offshore wind taking more dollars. If you want to delve into who and when “someone” gets to choose what’s right and what’s wrong, 97% of scientists agree that human activity (namely Carbon) injected into the atmosphere on a massive scale in the last 150 years. That consensus was reached and has been proven out in global temp rises over the last 30 years, the last 10 of which surpassed each other in terms of “record hot”. So I guess we let scientists who know their shit decide based on the science experimentation and analysis.

covered in the the previous bullet

I disagree that your previous argument covers this.

I said the examples are based, not the article

You did at that. I never disagreed. Offshore Wind is going to be pricier than anticipated. ANYTHING done on water ends up costing more. That one item doesn’t detract from the fact that it’s a fossil fuel backed propaganda arm using one example to smear all renewables and the political agenda to get more renewables on line in face of us rapidly crossing an agreed 1.5 deg. Celcius increase that will change the face of human history.

if someone has motivation to say something, it doesn’t mean they’re wrong. it means something else.

This is a pretty self-service statement, isn’t it? I guess I’ll say thank you for sharing this article and discussing it. The article takes one mildly negative piece against one renewable resource and tries to bury the lede of it’s own industry subsidation. Are the wrong about that one negative? I didn’t say they were. I’m saying it’s FUD and propaganda by an industry deathly afraid of losing their cash cow. I’m not making this personal about you, not even for posting. I think it serves as a useful example for critical thinking and how we can all be manipulated to share the bullshit someone wants us to spread along with a small nugget of truth…

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